Hi folks; here's one for the poem lovers.

We had the fantastic Martyn Wyndham-Reed at our club last night (14 Dec.) and among his many brilliant songs, one in particular caught my ear. He said it was a sad poem written by Ron. He did clarify that it was actually Lord Byron. The poem is "When We Two Parted (or Silence and Tears)" and Martyn wrote music for it.

Now I live near where Byron (and daughter Ada) is buried, and every July we have a Byron festival. So I got to thinking how great it would be to find other poems of Byron's that someone has put to music (and recorded) in recent years, and maybe do a little presentation. I think that there must have been many efforts in various styles made over the years ever since Byron first began publishing! For example. One of the other pieces most suitable for putting to music is probably "She Walks In Beauty". Anyone done this recently?

A guy called JM schroder has done a CD for a range of romatic poets, but I would like to focus on Byron.

So if anyone does know of any other such instances, could you please let me know either through this thread or PM me. I have not yet launched on any serious research, -just had a quick fling on Google, this is really my starting point. Probably won't amount to too much but you never know!

Cheers Brad